Door-hanger



Patented May 81, 1892.

DOOR HANGER.

llllll T. o. PROUTY sfo. W. TURNER.

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(No Model.)

THE NERRIS PETERS COV, PHOTO-LITMQ, WASNINGTUN. DA C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE C. PROUTY AND CLAUDE W. TURNER, OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,068', dated May 31,1892.

Application filed October 2, 1891. Serial No. 407,551. (No model.)

especially applicable to doors, but which may be applied to any objectwhich is to be held so as to reciprocate in a straight line, which whenapplied to a 'door or other object will hold the object so that itcannot move except in the line of its reciprocation, which will causethe door or other object to move very smoothly and Without friction,which may be quickly and easily adjusted so as to level the article towhich it is attached, which may be easily handled and secured in place,which Vworks noiselessly, and which may be secured to any desired partof a door and still be operative-that is to say, it may be attached tothe top, the bottom, or to one edge of the door.

To this end our invention consists in certain features of constructionand combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 isa side elevation of the device as applied to a house-door,showing the hanger in its normal position and with a portion of the doorbroken away to show the means of attaching the hanger to it. Fig. 2 is asimilar view, but with the door partially closed. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of a single hanger applied to a barn or car door, showing alsothe auxiliary device which takes the place of one hanger. Fig. 4: is abroken enlarged end view of the hanger. Fig. 5 is a broken enlarged sideelevation of the hanger with the middle arms removed and showing indetail the means of adjustment. Fig. 6 is a similar view of a doublehanger.

In connection with the house-door two hangers are preferably used andare arranged above the door, so that the door may be sus pended fromthem, and each hanger is pro vided with a base-bar 10, which is adaptedto be secured to a support, and pivoted to the basebar near the ends andextending upwardly therefrom are arms 11, which slightlyl converge andwhich at their upper ends are pivotally connected with the depending andconverging middle arms 12, the latter being pivoted together at a pointopposite the base-bar and serving to carry the door-pendant, asdescribed below. These middle arms 12 are bent slightly near their upperends, as shown at 12, so as to make room for the cross-arm 13, which ispivotally connected with the two 0utside arms Il; but instead of bendingthe arms 12 washers may be used to hold them the requisite distance fromthe arms 11.

One end of one of the bars 10, the one nearest the front edge of thedoor preferably, is given a half-turn and formed into an eye 14, inwhich is secured a screw 15, which turns in `the threaded eye 1G of aneyebolt which is secured in an adjacent support; but the screw may turnin any threaded bearing, and by means of it the base-bar may be quicklyadjusted and the hanger brought into a position to bring the door towhich it is secured into the correct position in relation to the sill.The bar provided with this screw is pivoted adjacent to one end, asshown at 17 in Figs. 5 and 6, so that it may be moved vertically. Thedoor-pendant 18 is secured to the connected ends of the arms 12, and thependant Y is screw-threaded and extends downward through a plate 19 onthe top edge of the door and through a nut 20, which is mounted in arecess in the door and which has a burr 22 extending downward into thedoor. The nut has roughened edges which project from the edges of thedoorv and by turning the nut its l position on the pendant-rod may bechanged and the height of the door adjusted. The upper end of thependant-rod 18 is formed preferably into a hook 23, adapted to be hookedover the pivot-pin connecting the lower ends of the arms 12, and inorder that the arms may be kept sufficiently far apart to permit theeasy securing of the hook a washer is inserted on the pivot-pin betweenthe arms.

On house-doors where there is suflicient room the hangers are placedabove the doors, as shown in Figs. l and 2 butin places where there isnot sufficient room the hangers may IOO be placed in the rear of thedoors and secured to the back edges thereof. In this case the bars l areplaced in a vertical position and the arms 12 secured to the door attheir junction, and in order that the door-hangers may always be in thesame relative positions the similar arms of the upper and lower hangersmay be connected so that they will work in unison.

When attached to car, barn, or other rough doors, one hanger may besecured to the bottom of the door 24, as shown in Fig. 3, andanauxiliary device secured to the upper portion of the door, so that thedoor will move'properly. In this case the arms l2 at their junction arepivoted to a support 25, which is secured adjacent to the bottom edge ofthe door, and the lower ends ot the arms ll are' secured directly to thedoor. The dooris held to move in keepers 2G, and theupper portion of thedoor is provided with the auxiliary device alluded to, which comprisesthe parallel arms 27,which are pivoted to supports T, adjacent to thetop edge of the door, the arm 28, connecting the lower ends of the arms27 .and pivoted thereto, and the parallel arms 29, which are pivoted tothe ends of the arm 28 and the lower ends of the arms 27, the upper endsof the arms 29 being pivoted to the door. This construction enables thedoorto slide smoothly and in a straight line, and it keeps thepassage-way clear when the door is open, as if two hangers were used inline at the bottom or top the arms of one hanger would extend outwardinto the passage-way. A guide-bar 24 is secured to the door and extendsoutside of the hanger and serves as a keeper for the hanger-arn1s- Theoperation of the device is as follows: When thehangers are in the normalposition, as shown in Fig. l, the door to which they are attached willbe held in a level position, and when the door is moved the arms 1l willswing on their pivots and the connected ends of the arms l2 will swingforward or backward, as the case may be, so as to carry the door in alevel position. It will be noticed by reference to Fig. 2 that the upperend of one of the arms ll remains in nearly its original position, andthe tendency would thus be for the door to swing on an up-curve; butthis tendency is offset by the dropping of the upper end of the otherarm ll.

Ha'ving thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent- 1. A hanger of the character described,comprising two swinging outside arms, a connecting cross-arm pivotedthereto, two middle arms pivoted to the t'ree ends of the outside armsand having two of their ends pivoted together, the converging ends ofthe middle arms being adapted to be secured to a movable object,substantially as described.

2. A hanger of t-he character described, comprising a supporting-bar, apair ot` outside arms pivoted on the bar and connected pivotally by across-arm, middle arms pivoted to the outside arms and having two ot'their ends pivoted together, and a pendant-rod carried by the middlearms, substantially as described.

j 3. A hanger of the character described, com- 'prisi n ga basebar,means fo r ad j ustin g the bar,

a pair of outside arms pivoted to the said bar and pvotally connected bya cross-arm, middle arms pivoted to the outside arm and having two oftheir ends pivoted together, said middle arms being arranged between theoutside arms, and a pendant-rod secured to the connected ends of themiddle arms, subst-antially as described.

4. A hanger of the character described, eomprising a base-bar adapted tobe pivoted to a support and having a screw mechanism at one end to adjust it, two outside arms pivoted to thebase-bar and connected pivotallyby a crossarm, middle arms pivoted to the outside arms and having two oftheir ends pivoted together, and a pendant-rod detachably connected withthe middle arms and adjusta'bly secured -to a door, substantially asdescribed.

'II-IEODORE C. PROUTY. CLAUDE W. TURNER. Vit-nesses:

JAMES A. TURNER, FRED. D. FAGG.

